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1st Foreign Parachute Regiment
1er Régiment étranger de parachutistes
Regimental insigne
Active
April 1, 1948 – May 31, 1949 July 1, 1948 – September 1, 1955 February 25, 1955 – April 30, 1961
Country
France
Branch
French Army
Type
Airborne Infantry
Part of
Co. Para du 3ème REI attached to III/1er RCP (1948–1949)
previously, the 1er BEP in:
1er BEP I Formation, 1948
1er BEP II Formation, 1951
1er BEP III Formation, 1954
1er REP, 1955
10th Parachute Division, 1956
Garrison/HQ
Camp de Jeanpierre (1959)
Zéralda, Algeria
Nickname(s)
Jeanpierre's Regiment
Jeanpierre's Legionnaires
Motto(s)
Marche ou crève[1]
Colors
Green and Red
March
Contre les Viets
Anniversaries
Camerone Day
Engagements
First Indochina War
Battle of Route Coloniale 4
Battle of Hòa Bình
Operation Lorraine
Battle of Nà Sản
Operation Castor
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Algerian War
Battle of Algiers
Bataille des Frontières
Suez Crisis Algiers putsch of 1961
Commanders
Notable commanders
Pierre Paul Jeanpierre Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc
Abbreviation
1er REP
Military unit
The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (French: 1er Régiment Etranger de Parachutistes, 1er REP) was an airborne regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army which dated its origins to 1948. The regiment fought in the First Indochina War as the three-time reconstituted 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion, the Suez Crisis and Algerian War, but was dissolved along with the 10th Parachute Division and 25th Parachute Division following the generals' putsch against part of the French government in 1961.
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